Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-22
AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

An AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Training the Boys and Girls in the,
Mysteries OF Ifural Occupation.
Dakota Bell: We had the pleasure,
one day this week. OF visiting the terri
torial agricultural college at BrookinRs.
We found tae president OF the Institution
carefully examining a fax seed with a
microscope under the impression that it
was a chineh-bng ''plsying 'possum"
on him. He grasped. our hand warmly
and invited Us to the experimental farll.
1.-The force OF students at work is
hardly SO large as usual" explained the
president, sowing TO the fact that I
nave several of them locked up in the
cellar Tor refusing to work at digging
the great holes necessary to plant the
pumpkins. / reasoned like this, if they
objected now. what would they do next
fall when it becomes necessary to dig
the pumpkins, with perhaps fifteen or
twenty In q hiil?'
We assured him that in our opinion
he was perfectly justified in the course
he had taken.
81 must also apologize for the oat
CROP" continued the president as we
4 bAA . RntOA Va RfOuAN a DC
l fear / was grossly imposed npon by an
unprinoipled scoundrel who sold me two
quarts of q new variety of oats which he
claimed would yield one hundred and
ifty bushels TO the acre. L was accord
ingly very glad to take them at So a
quart. The leading boot and shoe deal
or of our city has examined the ground
and claims that he can find nothing
out a cheap variety of white birch shoe
pegs. l am o graduate of two eastern
colleges and hold the degree of master
OF agriculture and can scarcely believe
that any one would dare to impose upon
me that way"
We went on and examined the whole
experimental farm and have seldom pass
| ed q day combining more instruction
| aud pleasure.
Ii was interesting to watch the pro
lessor OF stock rising giving class OF
about twenty a practical illustration O
teaching g spotted calf to drink without
swearing.
1t was the professor and not the calf
that was supposed to refrain from the
use of profanity,
We were very much interested in
Watching the professor back the calf up
in o corner ofthe yard and then take both
lsnds and groan and shove the subjects
head down into q pail OF milk. And later
| when the calf hunted the bottom out OF
| the pail and put one fore leg and his
head through the slaves and went snort
ing and believing around that yard on
three legs. butting the professor at every
step. it actually grew exciting.
Pretty Don the hoops broke and the
calf got on all four feet and hunted the
professor through the barbed wire fence
and would have cleaned out the whole
class if the experimental hired man who
never went to school in his life, hadn'i
come along and stopped HIM.
And when the professor went through
the fence he used q big zigzag word with
sharp cornars on it. seldom or never en-.
countered il, educational works. He ad.
mitted that the lecture was q failure.
After he and his class had gone up &c
the college the hired man, In stating his
opinion of experimental farming, used
some Of this ciass OF words till they were
worn quite smooth and presentable.
A few moments in the hesitation COR
raj of the professor of swineology also
afforded food for reflection.
TIE lesson for the day was "How tc
induce a pig to go back through the
same hole In the fence that he came oui
Of
They did not induce him.
But they tried.
aHi there. you little slippery cuss!'
shouted the boy at the head of the class
"Shoo, shoe, that's q good piggy !!
said mi of the young lady students al
she shook her apron at him.
take that, you measIy shoatf" howl
ed the red.headed boy at the loot of thu
class as he threw the text. book at th,
animal.
"Head him off, there, head Linz off,
wildly put in the professor, who was sit
ting on the gate.
just then the pig began to squeal ant
the young lady students all climbed tn,
!, fence, while the boys got rcd 10 th,
face and began looking for pitchforks
J and the pig shot through under thu
gate, raising ii up and throwing th,
j professor over into the watering troGgh
4 When he got out he told the class tt
B take the same lesson again and study i
/, more.
} The president ssid he was sorry that 8,
many accidents had occurred. I'll,
thought most of them might be traced
to the experimental hired man whom b,
Yves very suspicious had been raised OF
: q farm, and therefore was not fit to hav,
anything to do with en- agricultural col.
lege. He said he mnat now go ant
teach the advanced class how to ho'
wheat. aud hoped we would call again